It’s not about beasts, it’s not about marks, it’s not about seals, but it’s about the Revelation of Jesus Christ.

We have talked about the seven churches and we mentioned the Laodicea church, the church that represents the time in which we are living, the last days, the last church in the book of Revelation, our church era. The problem with the Laodicea church is that they had a different view of themselves than God did. This is the church that makes God sick – the lukewarm church. Lukewarm represents three types of works; 1) HOT WORKS represents works of the faith, 2) COLD works represents works of the flesh, and LUKEWARM is trying to mix the two together. In other words, it looks good on the outside, but we are rotten on the inside. God says that our Lukewarm – doing good things, is being motivated for the wrong reasons. We believe that by doing good things we earn salvation. God says, “NO, you have to take on my righteousness, and it is through my righteousness that you are saved.”

We are now studying the Three Angels’ Messages to the church. When we talk about the three angels’ message, it is one message in three settings–not three separate messages. We looked at the first angel who came with a message for us to, “Fear God and to reverence Him because He is the Creator. We are to worship only God.” This message is urgent because the judgment is at hand.

In Revelation 14:4, the second Angel’s message that, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen…” explains that the greatest hindrance to the power of the Gospel in the church is “self”. The second angel’s message is saying, “Take a look at the history of Babylon.” The greatest nation in the world in those days failed. Why did it fall? Babylon exalted “self”. This message is a warning to anyone who does not humble himself and accept God, His gospel, and give Him glory. Fornication is the merging of two bodies that are not supposed to merge. Babylon and God can’t exist in the same place. Salvation by Faith and Salvation by Works = Lukewarm.
We must surrender to God daily. 

 Pastor Jerome Hurst

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